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our second is 3 days old. I am sitting in our driveway as our 19mo old now refuses to go to sleep unless we drive her around. I know it is hard to believe, but already I can say: you aint seen nothin yet. i just keep thinking that it cant get much more exhausting, and then it does. luckily we are both taking 3 months off, plus we are in NZ.
now whats this about a book? have i missed something?

[dude, congratulations, sorry to hear you're driving around the Shire, though, and sorry to hear exactly what I was thinking about the whole exhaustion thing. -ed.]

Greg...like you, my kids are a few years apart (if memory serves, you daughter is 3? My son just turned four before #2 arrived six weeks ago). Unlike poor Daniel above, I think we have a bit of a advantage because our older kids are pretty reliably sleeping through the night and we've hopefully recovered from the first round of sleep deprivation a few years back.

Having said that, it was predictably awful to go from getting plenty of sleep back to getting no sleep.

I thought I knew what tired was ... after number 2 came along, I realized that having one was a cakewalk and that I was a fool for complaining at all. It is getting easier as they get a little older and play with each other, but that first year or so, made me appreciate the time I had with my daughter.

dudes, the negativity! is this a guy thing? where is greg's pep talk?? where do we tell him that EVENTUALLY he will sleep, that seeing how MUCH you can love two little people is a miracle, that after the initial exhaustion the kids quickly start to entertain each other, for longer and longer periods of time, thus giving the parents a bit of a break, and that the way #2 watches #1 with the adulation of a 70s teen at a david cassidy concert and #1 just kvells with the honor and responsibility of big-siblingdom is the coolest thing in the world? (and book?? new house?? as well as kid?? mazel tov on the trifecta!)

[yeah, I'm not really so down about the coming exhaustion so much as exhausted by the present exhaustion, which is mostly furniture and packing and home repair-related. -ed.]